Wednesday, February 11, 2015

This week I've been painting and glittering a custom vintage croquet set for a couples upcoming wedding in April. I set up shop on the dining room table and pretty much had a marathon all day glittering session. Lucky for me I had on the History channels Sons of Liberty, so I got a refresher in American History at the same time. After 10 hours, I was so tired I had to stop. I'm so happy with how they turned out.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Since the kids are back to school I've been spending more of my time creating. It feels so great to be doing what I love. I've been trying out some new ideas. I went back to cutting paper and have combined both paper cutting and painting. So here's a peek at my new series of collages on paper. Some are done, some have more layers to go. I'll happily take on custom work, if you'd like your own collage please let me know. Enjoy!

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

I've been working a project for the last few weeks and I'm finally done. Here's how it all started. I have two talented young friends and also occasional babysitters that are both going to college to study in the art field. One wants to teach art and the other is a film maker. Every Monday they get up and head out to our beach at sunrise and go surfing. They capture the beauty of the surf on a Go Pro. Then, they let the world have a peek via Instagram. I drooled over the beautiful photos. One particular photo caught my eye and I really wanted to have it printed on canvas and hung in our bedroom. Because of the resolution, I couldn't make this happen, so I decided to paint the scene.

Here's the original photo

I just love how the beauty of nature, all my favorite colors collided in this moment and these two girls captured it.

Here is my first run through, My first layer.

My second round, adding more.

The finished piece.

This is my husbands Christmas gift. It's the biggest painting I ever done. I can't wit to get it professionally framed.

Monday, January 13, 2014

As the kids get older it's harder to pull them out of school to go camping. We waited a long time to hit the road this school year. We finally made it to Joshua Tree over break. We camped 4 wonderful days in the park exploring all the interesting rock formations and trails. We had so much fun hiking everyday. The kids can do anything we can do. A milestone for us. It was hard to keep up with them. Here are a few photos of this magical place.

My daughter enjoying the sunset

the sunsets make the landscape more beautiful

the view on top of Ryan Mountain looking west

the view looking east

top of the mountain

This was our first time doing this hike, we will do it again next time too.

This is the best place in the park to see everything

It was a 1.5 miles straight up.

On top of Ryan Mountain, you can see all the way to the Salten Sea.

The sunset from our camp site in Jumbo Rocks.

These are the rock formation up close, we boulder over them all day.

The Joshua Trees are beautiful.

We free styled it up this little mountain to view the sunset one night.

We've been to Joshua Tree National Park over a dozen times, we love it here.

The rock on top of this mountain was about a 15 minutes from where we camped. We thought it would be nice to climb up there and watch the sunset in the valley. We were right!

Every night the sky gives us a new show.

Wow, amazing, spectacular!

Hello Moon!

The moon was so beautiful.

A trail.

We found a nice place to climb a tree.

We hadn't seen this formation since the kids were really small., It was fun showing the kids again.